‘23 Recruiting Forum: Official Austin Peay Pregame/Game Thread

[TheRain]

Woah woah woah…we need you to continue your posts of the nature and archeological finds. This is very unbecoming of you.

Yes, it was. Frustrations got the best of me.

 

[volKano]

There were only 3 or 4 throws that I would put on Milton.

There were ~5 drops that, while not perfect passes, were quite catchable..

Some throws that our fans want to criticize Milton for actually fall on our OL/RB's pass protection.

After last week I thought they were keeping it generic to save some wrinkles for the better teams. Now after this week I think they either don’t trust Milton, the receivers or OL. We didn’t throw a single pass 30+ yards downfield, They have Milton making very easy passes so even 3-4 bad passes on those routes isn’t a very good outing. We are gonna find out next week and if Milton doesn’t carry his weight you are going to start hearing a combination of boos and chants for Nico.

 

[MarcoVol]

After last week I thought they were keeping it generic to save some wrinkles for the better teams. Now after this week I think they either don’t trust Milton, the receivers or OL. We didn’t throw a single pass 30+ yards downfield, They have Milton making very easy passes so even 3-4 bad passes on those routes isn’t a very good outing. We are gonna find out next week and if Milton doesn’t carry his weight you are going to start hearing a combination of boos and chants for Nico.

Can we chill? For like a minute? We’re 2-0.

 

[85SugarVol]

Can we chill? For like a minute? We’re 2-0.

Sure. We’re 2-0.

But when people are trying to assess the quality of their football team, they are going to assess the quality of the wins.

We could have won 6-3 today and been 2-0.
We could have won 66-3 today and been 2-0.

People are simply assessing the win. It’s going to happen.

 

[BaldBiker]

Pretty simple to assess.

Defense...what is there to assess?

Offense...456 yds of offense...in what people are calling an ugly game.

Yep. I'm not that upset with this ugly win.

 

[85SugarVol]

Pretty simple to assess.

Defense...what is there to assess?

Offense...456 yds of offense...in what people are calling an ugly game.

Yep. I'm not that upset with this ugly win.

Well you’ve always been a rather rosy chap

 

[jmacvols1]

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Tennessee QB Joe Milton said that there's no injury issue after a play kept him down for a few extra seconds in the second half.

 

[Orange.]

I’m just trying to get someone to tell me what he did. I didn’t see any of it.

What did he do?

Dancing after big plays? Yelling at ref? Did he kick a cheerleader?

Peay played pretty dirty. A lot of chop blocks at knees, holding, starting a fight once. (Pretty sure they were taking advantage of knowing that we couldn't risk responding without suspensions for next week.) It really looked early as if injuring players was their game plan.

The officiating was terrible and let pretty much everything they did go. And added some mystery flags on us for good measure. That was really the issue. it was very noticeable. (Maybe their coach acted the dork, but I don't think that mattered.) It was the dirty football and the officiating. I think Peay is the new Akron, but with Purdue game officiating added to the mix.

 

[I4Jay]

Milton missing a lot of reads.
the WRs have been atrocious.
Spraggins was a train wreck tonight.
Squirre needs more touches .
This is setting up to be a long year in a conference that is perhaps the weakest it’s been in 10 years.

 

[Orange.]

We're fine. Whatever happened, we were not going to know what we had until we play the Swamp.

If we win there, people will still say we don't know what we have. You can't reasonably project the season from today's game, just like you couldn't from last week's game. Just win.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Being there was very bizarre

I mean Joe is always a little erratic, but nobody could catch a pass.

Felt like basketball where everybody starts missing their FT's. Got contagious.

Just makes no sense how we couldn't complete a single pass downfield. Unreal.

Who knows what happens from here on out. I feel better when I look at the rest of the country, because all kinds of weird stuff is happening.

 

[volinokc]

There were only 3 or 4 throws that I would put on Milton.

There were ~5 drops that, while not perfect passes, were quite catchable..

Some throws that our fans want to criticize Milton for actually fall on our OL/RB's pass protection.

Small whiffed on a block that got Milton sacked, and then dropped a screen that would have gone for a 1st down. Several drops and questionable holding calls had the entire offense out of rhythm from the start.
The coaches will have fun watching this with the team.

 

[InVOLuntary]

After a chance to sleep on it, I'm not sure I believe how that game played out. So uncharacteristic for a Heuple team. I'm happy we won but I don't blame people for being concerned. We play like that next week, or any conference game for that matter, we stand a pretty good shot to lose, any of them. My hope is they were extremely limited in what they were showing.

On another note, the team seemed disinterested and unemotional. It was like they were just going through the motions. This was especially true on the offensive side. Even coach Heupel didn't seem his normal self. It was like something was going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. One thing that makes college football different is the emotion. It seemed all the fire was on the opposing team's sideline.

As to the referees, it was atrocious. It was so blatant you have wonder if there was a motive behind it. I understand missed calls or wrong calls but when you review a play and the correct call is obvious and you double down on your incompetence, it makes one wonder about the motives behind the scenes. I suspect we'll see more of it down the road.

 

[JCP201]

I’m just trying to get someone to tell me what he did. I didn’t see any of it.

What did he do?

Dancing after big plays? Yelling at ref? Did he kick a cheerleader?

He acted like he needed to be drug tested. Ran out on the field constantly (refs never called it) Reminded you of Beamer on crack. The team was also very dirty. Lots of chop blocking. It was a strange night.

 

[volinokc]

He acted like he needed to be drug tested. Ran out on the field constantly (refs never called it) Reminded you of Beamer on crack. The team was also very dirty. Lots of chop blocking. It was a strange night.

How did they not call a personal foul on the special teams play? It was right in front of the official.
And I know it’s the go to for post-game whining and has probably been stated a thousand times by now, but the lack of holding calls on them was bizarre.

Overall though I just think this offense bought into their own hype and hasn’t been focused, so a little “come to Jesus” against a terrible team may not be such a bad thing.

 

[JCP201]

How did they not call a personal foul on the special teams play? It was right in front of the official.
And I know it’s the go to for post-game whining and has probably been stated a thousand times by now, but the lack of holding calls on them was bizarre.

Overall though I just think this offense bought into their own hype and hasn’t been focused, so a little “come to Jesus” against a terrible team may not be such a bad thing.

Having this happen now where they can work on it, is obviously better then getting a surprise next week---thinking we were ready to win the National Championship because we beat two bad teams.

 

[knoxvol52]

How did they not call a personal foul on the special teams play? It was right in front of the official.
And I know it’s the go to for post-game whining and has probably been stated a thousand times by now, but the lack of holding calls on them was bizarre.

Overall though I just think this offense bought into their own hype and hasn’t been focused, so a little “come to Jesus” against a terrible team may not be such a bad thing.

Also in Joe Milton's defense I see him trying to hard instead of letting it flow..... I hear him and Nico get along really well but you know Joe has to hear the rumblings from the outside from fans.....you know that is even more pressure on him to perform...

 

[JCP201]

After a chance to sleep on it, I'm not sure I believe how that game played out. So uncharacteristic for a Heuple team. I'm happy we won but I don't blame people for being concerned. We play like that next week, or any conference game for that matter, we stand a pretty good shot to lose, any of them. My hope is they were extremely limited in what they were showing.

On another note, the team seemed disinterested and unemotional. It was like they were just going through the motions. This was especially true on the offensive side. Even coach Heupel didn't seem his normal self. It was like something was going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. One thing that makes college football different is the emotion. It seemed all the fire was on the opposing team's sideline.

As to the referees, it was atrocious. It was so blatant you have wonder if there was a motive behind it. I understand missed calls or wrong calls but when you review a play and the correct call is obvious and you double down on your incompetence, it makes one wonder about the motives behind the scenes. I suspect we'll see more of it down the road.

I know we whine about refs --every fan does, but this was ridiculous. Vegas? And with the three chop blocks called, there were far more where that came from. The other team literally beating up on one player etc. It's amazing we came out without injury (I hope) (I am also hoping we get some good players back for Florida. )

There was definitely something off about last night. Also, they need to practice catching passes. Is it those gloves? I know we had the best with Hendon, but this bad? I haven't really seen Milton throw down the field-- just the sidelines.

 

[itsme]

That’s the sloppiest 17 point win I can recall seeing.

Obvious vanilla play calling on offense, Milton still sputtered to 228 and 2 TDs with a 3rd rushing.

Defense was playing 2 deep starting in the 2nd quarter.

I am mostly concerned about OL play, they will need to step up play against SEC DLs.

Milton was a little behind on his throws to start the game but the receivers had A LOT of dropped balls. To start the game Milton was 1 for 8 or so with 5-6 drops on catchable balls. We cannot have that going forward. That stalled the offense on the first couple of drives. Refs were as well, not helping anything.

 

[Grey_pilgrim]

I wonder if they have the pedophilia too

Alabama usually just sticks to incest. They do have standards after all.

 

[nashvol1]

Milton was a little behind on his throws to start the game but the receivers had A LOT of dropped balls. To start the game Milton was 1 for 8 or so with 5-6 drops on catchable balls. We cannot have that going forward. That stalled the offense on the first couple of drives. Refs were as well, not helping anything.

The announcers kept saying the DB tipped the slant pass to Thornton. I thought he just dropped it. DB was on the ground and it hit him on the 1.

 

[Grey_pilgrim]

After a chance to sleep on it, I'm not sure I believe how that game played out. So uncharacteristic for a Heuple team. I'm happy we won but I don't blame people for being concerned. We play like that next week, or any conference game for that matter, we stand a pretty good shot to lose, any of them. My hope is they were extremely limited in what they were showing.

On another note, the team seemed disinterested and unemotional. It was like they were just going through the motions. This was especially true on the offensive side. Even coach Heupel didn't seem his normal self. It was like something was going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. One thing that makes college football different is the emotion. It seemed all the fire was on the opposing team's sideline.

As to the referees, it was atrocious. It was so blatant you have wonder if there was a motive behind it. I understand missed calls or wrong calls but when you review a play and the correct call is obvious and you double down on your incompetence, it makes one wonder about the motives behind the scenes. I suspect we'll see more of it down the road.

Weather delay
Not running through the T
Other team fired up, playing lights out, playing very dirty and chirping at our guys all night.
Our team sleep walking from the weird start (weird time, delay & no T) and got punched in the mouth and never getting into a rhythm.

(Plus say what you want about their coach using timeouts, it killed our rhythm and likely cost us a touchdown once and had to settle for a field goal.)

Bad calls against us.
Looking ahead to next week.
It was the perfect recipe for a trap game.

At one point we literally ran the ball 4 or 5 times in a row and the exact same play to boot. We could’ve won 60-3 and we’d know about the same that we do now but have the warm fuzzies because of the bigger score.

Defense looked good until they started playing a weird 3 linemen close gap up front. We lost our pressure there I don’t know if they were just trying a new look but it wasn’t working very well.

All in all I’d say we’re in a good spot. We could’ve won by 60 and I’d still be just as nervous about Florida. We’ll know more after that.

 

[LadyVolette]

Sideline antics were very over the top, he was on the field a number of times as plays started.

AP as a whole was doing a good bit of chop blocking and holding.

I guess it worked at least enough to motivate his team.

Yep, clotheslining, chop blocking, and a lot of jumping up and down by all

 

[engineerVOL]

AP coach is wandering around Fountain City looking for some crack and timeouts:

 

[85SugarVol]

Milton missing a lot of reads.
the WRs have been atrocious.
Spraggins was a train wreck tonight.
Squirre needs more touches .
This is setting up to be a long year in a conference that is perhaps the weakest it’s been in 10 years.

Apparently Heupel said the middle routes were open all night, but just not executed on.

Is that what you saw?